BRICS and MICs: Implications for Global Agrarian Transformation

Ben Cousins holds a DST/NRF Research Chair at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands; Adjunct Professor in the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) at China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing, PR China; and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Sergio Sauer is Professor for the Post Graduate Program for Environment and Rural Development in the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. He has a research scholarship from CNPq, Brasilia, Brazil.Jingzhong Ye is Professor and Dean of the COHD at CAU, Beijing, PR China.

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